Adhyaya 10 — Jaimini’s Questions on Birth, Death, Karma, and the Embodied Journey
ततो येनाम्बुदानानि कृतान्यन्नरसास्तथा ।
दत्ताः स तस्य आह्लादमापदि प्रतिपद्यते ॥
tato yenāmbudānāni kṛtāny annarasās tathā | dattāḥ sa tasya āhlādam āpadi pratipadyate ||
ครั้นแล้ว ด้วยบุญแห่งการให้น้ำทาน และด้วยบุญแห่งการให้อาหารกับโภชนะแห่งรสอันโอชะ เขาย่อมได้รับความเย็นใจและความปลอบประโลมในกาลแห่งทุกข์
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Charity—especially basic life-supporting gifts like water and food—returns as solace in crisis; dharma is practical, shaping both society and one’s subtle destiny.
Dharma (conduct and its fruits). While not one of the five cosmological marks, it is a core Purāṇic didactic layer accompanying them.
Water and food are archetypes of prāṇa-support; giving them outwardly is mirrored inwardly as ‘cooling’ and relief when inner fires and vāyus intensify at the liminal moment.